Background
He was born at West Maitland to wool broker Joseph Marks and Elizabeth, née Benjamin.
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Ernest Marks
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Career
He was the manager of the Australian Olympic teams for the 1908 London games, the 1912 Stockholm games, and the 1932 Los Angeles games. He served as the Nationalist member for North Sydney in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1927 to 1930. In 1930 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire).
He had also been active in local government through the Civic Reform Association, serving on Sydney City Council from 1920 to 1927 and from 1930 to 1947, with a period as Lord Mayor in 1930.
He died in Sydney in 1947.
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December 2, 1947 (aged 75)